Stab helmets

Here's how you rip off a popular character owned by a rival comics company, Image style. First, make part of his costume unmistakably derivative:

Look closely, it's pretty hard to spot! Not.

Then, make sure the derivative costume element is used to stab someone through the chest:

Finally, make sure your art direction and panel layouts are so bad that even the people involved can't tell what's going on:

As you can see, Hawk-ripoff-guy says "How's your gut", when clearly Brigade (the stabee) had the not-Batman helmet shoved through his rib cage and chest. But hey, at least the gut and the heart are both in the torso, which in Image anatomy is close enough.